CATHOLIC LEAGUE SPOKESPERSON Kiera McCaffrey is righteously indignant about an album booklet included in Britney Spears’ new CD release, “Blackout”, reports MTV.
Said booklet shows Britney Spears and a handsome man of the cloth getting cozy together in the confessional.
Declares McCaffrey: “What would be great is if she got serious about her religious faith and instead [...]
The new film adaptation of Beowulf’s justly been receiving loads of huzzahs for its groundbreaking use of 3D technology (The Economist has devoted an article to how exactly it works), but its screenplay has received far less - if any - respect from the critics.
This is perplexing, since what writers Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman [...]
If you haven’t heard yet, the horse-chestnut tree that gave famous Jewish refugee Anne Frank so much comfort in the early 1940’s has been condemned by the city. And I don’t mean “condemned” in the sense that the U.N. “condemns” things; I mean it’s going to be ripped out of the ground. The [...]
This Thanksgiving, President Bush wants us to give back to our communities.
In a reflective mood as he looks toward his final year in office, President Bush delivered his first official Thanksgiving speech Monday, urging Americans to “show their thanks by giving back” and to remember that “our nation’s greatest strength is the decency [...]
Bruce Campbell
What do you get if you mix the classic comedy The Three Amigos with the cult classic Evil Dead series of humorous horror films?
You get Bruce Campbell’s new movie My Name Is Bruce, an indie flick (you’ll rarely see Bruce starring in anything else) in which actor Bruce Campbell ostensibly plays himself kidnapped by [...]
A new preview of coming comic Batman & The Outsiders shows Batman pontificating in his cave about why a shady corporation manufactures “quantities of Berkelium and Californium”.
“Two highly radioactive substances with no practical industrial applications,”
muses the crimefighter, adding that “[the corporation] has contacts with the European Space Administration.”
The writer of the series, Chuck [...]
Above: “Y’know, Jake, I gotta say… Talking with you and opening up like this really does beat looking at my dad’s magazines.”
Remember that age-old stereotype concerning what men want to do and what women want to do? You’ve seen or heard it a thousand times, perhaps even experienced it yourself: the woman wants [...]
What causes poverty in America? Greedy capitalistic businessmen? Unethical financiers? How about marriage?:
For the most part, long-term poverty today is self-inflicted. To see this, let’s examine some numbers from the Census Bureau’s 2004 Current Population Survey. There’s one segment of the black population that suffers only a 9.9 percent poverty rate, and only [...]
I ran across this review of a 1970’s JC Penney catalog. Yikes! Not only am I convinced that my generation is richer than my parent’s generation, I’m also convinced that we dress better.
Count your many blessings, name then one by one. Start with your closet and dresser.
I cheer globalization, even when American workers lose their jobs to non-Americans. Why? Because the world’s poor are always made better off. To be blunt, I feel far, far more sympthathy for the poor of the world than I do for America’s newly unemployed. One group of people gets to enjoy fresh food year round, [...]